Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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